The Fire-Swallowing Toad's Demon Core, Gray Wolf Provokes Trouble-More Chapters Tonight with Monthly Votes

Chapter 287: The Fire-Swallowing Toad's Demon Core, Gray Wolf Provokes Trouble—Extra Chapters Tonight for Monthly Votes!

The seats in the great hall were arranged according to the closeness of their ties and the strength of their factions.

Xu Chuan sat just below Blazing Sun True Lord, opposite True Lord Qingmu.

This showed how highly the Skyfeather Sect regarded Xu Chuan.

But that was hardly surprising. After all, the person in the sect master's seat belonged to the Xu Household!

True Lord Qingmu had secretly tried to examine Xu Deling, only to discover that a force blocked his spiritual consciousness, preventing him from probing her.

Still, he could vaguely guess that Xu Deling had probably broken through to the Golden Core stage.

When and where did she form her core?

Why was there no Core Formation Phenomenon at all?!

Doubts lingered in his mind.

In previous years, the very best participants in the Heavenly Pride Conference had all broken through within three years. The quickest had taken only a little over a year.

As Xu Deling was the Number One Heavenly Pride, True Lord Qingmu's conjecture was naturally reasonable.

Of course, nothing was absolute. There had also been heavenly prides who overtook the others and formed their cores first.

The restriction artifact Xu Deling wore to block spiritual consciousness had naturally been refined by Xu Mingxian. Its design came from his study of the restrictions on the rosewood box Xu Chuan had obtained in Mysterious Moon City.

He had applied those restrictions to the artifact.

As long as she concealed her aura and cultivation herself, Golden Core cultivators could not forcibly probe her with their spiritual consciousness, and thus could not see through her cultivation.

"Sect Master Phoenix Plume, you seem to have a magical artifact that blocks spiritual consciousness. It's